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Podcast: Education On Fire - Sharing creative and inspiring learning in our schools
Episode: 064: How to create a school with less testing, less planning & verbal feedback
Description: Flora Barton is Headteacher at Crowmarsh Gifford CE Primary School. We discuss how they are supporting their pupils to become independent learners, while creating a working environment for the teaching team to thrive, inspire and be creative. Less testing changes the focus of how teachers teach and as you will hear the results are remarkable.
They are doing this by:
Purple learning for the pupils
Increasing educational visit
More learning outside of the classroom
No formal observations
Verbal feedback
2 days a week staff should leave school at 4.15 with nothing in their hands
Focus on wellbeing
Less P...